Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ocls.ca

Ontario Colleges Library Service | Ontario Colleges Library Service

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

ocls.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ocls.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ocls.ca performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ocls.ca

92 ms

www.ocls.ca

231 ms

css_eSU4bSduQaUeFUi-BuJjOvq_WE6KwHs3I1uReE6scwY.css

89 ms

css_FJ6llqZoyYIQNGWW96XVduIfXz8MdRJf6GEMIEUjZQs.css

99 ms

css_iGr5gFnEVfg5gv0dGp5TkoNakTWwjfxIVX8sDprG0Lk.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ocls.ca, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (439 ms) belongs to the original domain Ocls.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.5 kB (54%)

Content Size

771.1 kB

After Optimization

356.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ocls.ca main page is 771.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 504.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 63.5 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 18.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 44.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 142.6 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Ocls images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 321.5 kB

  • Original 504.6 kB
  • After minification 479.5 kB
  • After compression 183.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 321.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 57.0 kB
  • After compression 12.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Ocls.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ocls. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ocls.ca accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

ocls.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ocls.ca SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ocls.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ocls.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ocls. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: